Kevin Schmidt
Engineering Manager at Babbu
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Schmidt is a hands-on engineering manager and data infrastructure architect with 11 years of experience leading teams at scale, currently managing engineering at Meta after earlier leadership roles at Instagram and as CTO of Century Tech. He builds and mentors cross-functional data and engineering teams, translating complex data problems into reliable production systems and pragmatic roadmaps. A seasoned public speaker at conferences like O’Reilly’s Strata + Hadoop World and Nucl.ai, he combines technical depth with clear communication for stakeholders and engineers alike. His background spans startups and large enterprises—from co-founding tech ventures to leading data science and middleware—giving him a rare blend of operator, architect, and founder perspectives. Based in London, he is equally comfortable in strategic board advisory roles and getting deep into data infrastructure design and implementation.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Leipzig UniversityBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Fernuniversität Hagen
English, German, Chinese, French
Github Skills (35)
extensible7
salt7
golang6
tagless-final6
scala6
modular6
logging5
functional-programming5
jira4
logstash4
transition3
ansible3
vault3
filebeat3
openvpn3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CENTURY-Tech/mongodb-formula
Dec 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
kevinschmidt/hubot-k8s
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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